Comments on: Renaissance layering

By: David

David — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:57:19 +0000

Jacopo,

Thanks. I don't read Italian, but the photos are of people in Italian Renaissance clothing. Interesting.

By: jacopo

jacopo — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:27:39 +0000

Wondeer!! Thank for the post and you nice blog. I hope to link a good news by Vaite in reanaissance and expecially medieval on
Federico
II mediueval period. It’s in Italian words and video about his history in
Italy . Same picture… Goog vision Jacopo Here is the link:

http://notitiae.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/palio-del-ducato-di-eggi-%E2%80%93-iii-edizione-3-ottobre-2010/

By: David

David — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:17:28 +0000

Adam,

Through most of the Renaissance, mostly, the Italians didn't do monochrome underpaintings. They would do an underdrawing in ink (or sometimes paint or chalk), followed by a series of colored layers. It wasn't until Titian and other late Renaissance Venetian painters began to develop more modern painting methods that monochrome underpaintings began to be used. I'm sorry but I'm not sure which pigments were used for that purpose.

By: adam

adam — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:06:46 +0000

so which brown pigment did the italians use for the monochrome underpainting?

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:05:00 +0000

Very informative. I had noticed the difference while walking the museums but didn't know why. And now I do! thanks